Bio: "Debralee Pagan is a native Bay Area redhead. Well, almost. Her life has been largely internal, except for a microscopic marriage in 1982. She has spent oodles of time in churches, 12-step meetings, and mental wards. As a result, she is philosophically skewed and highly allergic to Missionaries.
Debralee has produced about 5 books of poetry, 2 of which will be available, a greeting card (ditto), and an award-winning comedy-romance novel. She has recently moved to Walnut Creek, and has not yet been arrested for not owning a car or a retirement account. She works 12 hours a week in Berkeley for a library and a psychologist. She is not sure what she does with the rest of her time, but suspects it involves a great deal of brooding."
Debralee has been quietly producing oftentimes stunning works through a career that has seen her perform at some of the best known venues around. Both the quirky poem below and the stunning poem you can see on the Word Beat website (go to http://www.angelfire.com/poetry/wordbeat and click on Debralee's name once it is highlighted after I've updated the website) are examples of her wide range. Debralee utilizes intuitive understanding and creative description combined in unusual ways to draw out her poems for the audience. She doesn't read as often nowadays so I strongly recommend coming to hear her read Thursday. DGK
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